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Mr. Thomas B. Ford, Superintendent of Schools :
DEAR SIR,-During the summer vacation Miss Catherine Flagg resigned as teacher of the third and fourth grades and Miss Isabel De Lorey was transferred from the Redington Street school to take charge of the third grade.
Owing to an overflow Miss Elsie Hussey was obliged to take a portion of the second grade from the Clarke school, making a class of over fifty pupils.
Several things are needed for improvement as well as comfort : on dark days it is almost impossible to see, which calls. for lighting ; new shades for the windows ; the roof needs repairing ; many of the blackboarks are out of repair and a telephone is very essential.
The work is running smoothly and the parents in most cases cooperate with the teachers.
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The attendance is good but we wish the parents would make a greater effort to have their children on time thus preventing so much tardiness.
Respectfully submitted, MABEL F. VERRY.
Report of Principals of Beach School.
Mr. T. B. Ford, Superintendent of Schools :
DEAR SIR, -The pupils of the Beach School, almost without exception, are working well ; and discipline; the teachers have seldom to consider. There is very little unnecessary absence or tardiness.
More material for Commercial Geography is needed in the eighth grade ; and reference books of various kinds are needed for both the seventh and the eighth grades.
The sanitary conditions were a menace to the health of those occupying the lower room during the early part of the fall term ; there has been some improvement since. The ventilation is entirely by the windows, and those are very near the pupils.
Both rooms suffer from the method of heating. One part of the room is comfortable, while the other is rarely over 60 degrees in the cold days, and generally under.
Yours respectfully,
ELIZABETH J. HADLEY, ELLEN M. DEWING.
Report of Principal of Palmer School.
To the Superintendent of Schools :
The Palmer School will have completed its third year in June. The building has been much enjoyed by children and teachers, and has proved, on the whole, very satisfactory.
During this period several gifts have been made to the school, i.e., a picture of "The Child Handel," by Mrs. Thomas Stanley :
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"Meditation," by the Clarke School teachers : and a plaster-cast by Mrs. Hutt. All of which have found their niche and have been duly appreciated. The teachers' room has been partly furnished with money received for tuition.
There are still some crying needs, however. We have no electric lights although the building is wired for electricity. The teachers' work as well as the janitor's is hampered all through the winter months on account of no lighting facilities. A telephone is an absolute necessity. We often need to consult the school physician, truant officer and superintendent, and it is most inconvenient to be without a telephone. The play-ground is very muddy during much of the winter term and through the entire spring term. Several loads of gravel are needed to make it fit for play.
Respectfully submitted,
LOUISE C. STANLEY.
Report of Supervisor of Drawing.
Mr. Thomas B. Ford, Superintendent of Schools :
MY DEAR SIR,-The results of last year's supervision of drawing in the Swampscott schools, have been most encouraging. I have found both pupils and teachers most responsive to my efforts, toward a more complete course of drawing,-a course which, if conscientiously followed out will, I hope, better train the pupil's minds along artistic lines and culture.
We do not aim to make artists of the children but to help them to appreciate good proportion, harmonious color and teach them principles of appearance perspective and mechanical drawing.
Good workmanship is a most essential factor in drawing and for that reason, many subjects were given last April and May which demanded careful designing and working. In the fourth and sixth grades, models were made of brass, which were de- signed by the pupils themselves and the picture frames and cal- endars proved to be a most useful article. Weaving was intro- duced in the fifth grade and the original border designs in the cloth bags were excellently done. The nine difficult problems
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of the seventh grade in makiag a waste-paper basket from book binders' linen, called for care in construction and original de- signing. The results were very satisfactory. Woodblock print- inting upon a Russia crash table runner was taken up by eighth grade pupils and their designs and execution of this work was most praiseworthy. The stencilled pillows, tooled leather mats and hand decorated fans, worked out by freehand classes of the High School, showed the practical appreciation of the manual training to home decoration.
Good drawing with the pencil and brush seems to be the most difficult form of drawing for pupils and much practice is given in object drawing, composition and perspective in all grades. September and October offer rich opportunities for natural study, and this is the time for careful study of flowers, form and color harmonies. An anatomical sheet, illustrating the dimen- sions of color and its harmonies, was made by each grade and it is hoped that this will help to train the color sense, which plays an important rôle in every-day life.
Accuracy in detail and measurements is a most necessary part of the course, and for this reason much stress is laid upon the mechanical side. Measuring to dictation in all grades is given and, after entering the fourth grade, the pupil is given compasses to work with. Patterns for construction and view drawings are studied. Simple principles of projection, demanding use of instruments, are introduced in the seventh grade and working drawing of objects, demanding scale work are taken up in both seventh and eighth grades.
The art of lettering and good spacing of the same is difficult. All grades are given a certain type of letter to study, followed by spacing of mottoes, quotations, signs and advertisements.
Mechanical drawing in the High School has improved rapidly and four separate classes are doing excellent work along these lines. Pupils electing this course are given training in con- structive problems for the practical in the use of instruments and inking of same ; progressing to the more difficult work in ortho- graphic projection, working drawing, machine details, scale drawing, isometric and intersections of solids. This preliminary
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training should prove invaluable to those who anticipate enter- ing college, and many of the problems taught are taken directly from college courses.
Let me thank the Board and Superintendent for their interest and cooperation. Let me also speak, here, of the excellent sup- port which the teachers have given me in my efforts to raise the standard of drawing in the schools. Drawing is not the easiest subject for some teachers to cope with and I wish to thank all for their hearty response.
Very respectfully
FLORENCE I. BULFINCH.
Report of Supervisor of Music.
To Mr. T. B. Ford, Superintendent of Schools :
I have the honor to herewith submit my first report as Super- visor of Music for the public schools of Swampscott.
In taking charge of any department, in the business of this life, whether educational, industrial, political, or otherwise, it takes some time for the incumbent to get shaken down to the position, but in the present case the Supervisor finds the schools all in good condition generally speaking.
The material in use in the Seventh grade (Miss Wentworth) Clarke School, and the Second grade of the Redington and Machon is obsolete and antiquated, and has been somewhat of a handicap, but the spirit of these rooms, is something splendid, although we might say this for the whole Town.
The aim in handling children's voices is not to develop but to preserve, and to give them a working knowledge of the subject. Children, especially very young should sing with the soft head tone, and in doing so, will produce the most beautiful musical tone known.
To quote from another article written by the Supervisor some years ago. The day has gone by when music is considered an experiment or luxury when considered as part of the curriculum of the school system. Any study that enters into the after life of mankind, to give enjoyment to the masses, by either relaxation,
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or instruction, is well worth the price we pay for it, and whether we give them simple or commonplace, or artistic results, someone will be satisfied, and remember it in after years with pleasant feelings.
Of course, we do not expect to make the girls all Nordicas, nor the boys all DeReskes, but there are many instances, when having made in after life a success of music, they can trace the beginning to the public school.
The first year's work is wholly imitative. Rote songs, motion songs, learning the scale names, the scale from imitation, by any means that appeal to the childish imagination. Toward the latter part of the year we teach them the intervals.
The second year's work is an advance rote or imitation year, during which we teach the staff and a few of the signs that go with it, simple intervals, simple sight reading exercises, with shifting "do," also continuing rote and motion songs.
The third year, is the start of technical training with all the signs and symbols connected with the study. After this year we drop all rote singing, and confine ourselves entirely to learning the intervals, so that the printed page becomes actually a mirror which reflects something that finds utterance through the voice.
From this we go up, taking difficulty after difficulty and sur- mounting them until we encounter the changing boy's voice, in either the seventh or eighth grade.
This paper is far too brief for a discussion of this phase of the work, but we think that by hard work we can reduce any retard- ing of the work to a minimum.
The chorus at the High School has started in well, and at graduation we hope to give a good accounting.
In conclusion, would state that the supervisor has been received very cordially and pleasantly by the teachers, who have given him all the assistance in their power, and this combined with the fact that many of the scholars are children of his friends, and in some cases offsprings of old schoolmates, makes it more like a home coming, than assuming charge of a new position.
Respectfully submitted,
JANUARY 14, 1911.
EBEN F. RICHARDSON.
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Truant Officer's Report.
SWAMPSCOTT, MASS., January 31, 1911.
To the Superintendent of Schools :
DEAR SIR,-I beg leave to submit the following report as Truant Officer of the Town of Swampscott for the year ending January 31, 1911.
Whole number of complaints 147
Calls made in investigating said complaints 301
Cases of truancy . · 7
Second offense 2
Cases of unnecessary or inexcusable absence .
· ST
During the year one case of truancy has been prosecuted in the police court and the boy placed on probation with the result that he is now attending school regularly and doing good work. The chief ground upon which the complaints made to the truant officer are based is that the parents keep their children out of school for trivial reasons which are not recognized as excusable absence under the educational laws of the State. These cases when called to the attention of the parents are usually rectified without trouble but other cases still continue to arise which make the number of inexcusable absences look large.
During the investigation of the cases of absence one case of apparently neglected children was found and reported to the Chief of Police who according to law handles such cases.
Respectfully submitted,
ALFRED F. FRAZIER,
Truant Officer.
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Report of Medical Inspectors.
I herewith submit my annual report as Medical Inspector of Swampscott schools which this year includes only the last eight months of the present school year ; as beginning Dec. Ist, 1910, each school was assigned to a different inspector.
Below will also appear my report of the Redington school from Dec. Ist, 1910, to Feb. Ist, 1911.
Report last eight months for all schools.
Impetigo Pedulosis Scabies Mumps Petussis Adenoids Accidents
Clarke
2
I
O
I
S
35
O
Redington
15
30
O
I
9
2I
I
Beach
O
6
O
O
15
O
Palmer
O
2
O
2
+
IO
Machon
+
7
I
3
2
I2
High
O
O
O
0
O
2
Report Redington School from December 1, 1910, to Febru- ary 1, 19II.
Impetigo Pedecular Scabies Mumps I I 2 7
As a whole, the schools have improved very much in physical condition and parents seem more willing to cooperate with the Inspector.
Very respectfully,
H. K. GLIDDEN, M. D.
To the Superintendent of Schools :
I hereby submit the following report as Medical Inspector of the Clarke School. Since December 1, 1910, I have made weekly visits to the school.
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There has been six cases of Pediculosis Capitis. In each case the parents were advised, and the same has been cared for.
As far as possible I have tested the sight and hearing, and in cases that were below the normal standard notes have been sent to the parents.
With the exception of a few cases of mumps there has been no disease in the school thus far.
LORING GRIMES, M. D.
FEBRUARY, 7, 19II.
During the past two (2) months I have visited weekly the Machon and Beach schools.
The general health of both schools has been excellent, and aside from mumps no epidemic has prevailed one (I) case each of Pediculi Capitis and Impetigo contagiosa have been reported and proper treatment instituted. Sight and hearing have been tested by the teachers under direction of the Inspector and when necessary parents have been notified of any appreciable defects.
H. M. LOUD, M. D.
I am pleased to report to you that I have found the health of the pupils of the High and Palmer Schools exceptionally good. Examinations have been made as reported previously.
I would ask that you suggest to the School Committee that the Palmer School is as worthy of sanitary drinking facilities as is the High School.
Respectfully submitted,
R. E. BICKNELL, M. D.
FEBRUARY 7, 1911.
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GRADUATION EXERCISES
OF THE
SWAMPSCOTT HIGH SCHOOL
AT PHILLIPS SCHOOL BUILDING
Wednesday Evening, June 22, 1910 8 O'CLOCK
PROGRAM
INVOCATION
Rev. Leo B. Harris.
(a) "'Lovely Appear " . .
(b) "Summer Roses " School Chorus.
Gounod Geibel
SALUTATORY-" The Morning Light "
Clara Beatrice Nies.
"A Promise for the Future " Emeline Frances Tompkins.
" Hunting Chorus " from "Lily of Killarney " School Chorus. Benedict
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" The American Citizen of To-morrow.". Thomas Elliott Benner.
"A Day of Gold" . Mildred Warren Shorey.
" 'Tis Morn Geibel School Chorus.
' What the Little Birds Told "
Zetta Davies Merchant.
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT
Richard Henry McNamara.
ACCEPTANCE OF GIFT AND AWARDING OF PHILLIPS MEDALS. Member of School Committee, J. Henry Welch.
" Happy Days are Gliding" . Pflock School Chorus.
VALEDICTORY-" An Age of Development " Louise Call.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS . Chairman of School Committee, S. Perry Congdon.
CLASS ODE
Charles Rhoads Williams.
Accompanist. Zora Nute. '13.
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GRADUATES-1910.
Louise Call. Bertha Louise Ellis.
Pauline Flagg. Grace Harriet Gosselin.
Zetta Davies Merchant.
Alice Dorothea Monahan. Clara Beatrice Nies. Gertrude Drake Robbins. Helen Josephine Robbins. Mildred Warren Shorey.
Emeline Frances Tompkins.
Marion Huldah Wood.
Thomas Elliott Benner. William Irvin Brennan. James Alphonsis Hegarty. William Joseph Lambert. Richard Henry McNamara. Charles Morrill Smith. Roy Everett Varina. Charles Rhodes Williams.
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GRADUATION EXERCISES
OF THE
Clarke and Phillips Grammar School
TOWN HALL, SWAMPSCOTT, MASS.
Friday, Evening, June 24, 1910, 7.45 P. M.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
INVOCATION
Rev. Jonathan Cartmill.
PIRATES' CHORUS-From Pirates of Penzance . Sullivan
DECLAMATION-"International Peace" Roosevelt Walter Andrew Brennan.
PIANO SOLO-"Mauzurka" . Leschetizky
ESSAY-"Cavalleria Rusticana"
Mabel Summers.
"ALMIGHTY GOD" .
From Cavalleria Rusticana
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DECLAMATION-"Death of Napoleon." Anon
Jerome Watts.
PIANO DUET-"A May Day Dance." Nevin. Ralph Lindsey and Henry Sleeper.
ESSAY-"' Il Trovatore" · Katharine Howard Rock.
(a) "Miserere" from Il Trovatore Verdi. (b) "Silent now the Drowsy Bird" From Conte d'Hoffman . Offenbach.
MARCH OF THE CHINESE LANTERNS
By Twenty-four Girls.
READING OF HONOR ROLL AND SELECTED LIST.
Secretary of the School Committee, A. W. Stubbs.
'.PSALM TO LABOR"-From Athalie Mendelssohn. .
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS
Chairman of School Committee, S. Perry Congdon.
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Graduates of Phillips School.
George Garry Barker Frank Willard Blaney
Milo Field Jackson
Harold Chester Jones
Walter Andrew Brennan Julia Ann Butler Mary Jane Butler
Samuel Blaine Kehoe John Henry McDonough
Beatrice Laura Butt
Charles Munroe Cahoon
Eleanor Gertrude McNamara Ruth Irene Martin Mabel Moors
Irene Isabel Caproni
Lucy Green Chapman
Esther Louise Connell
Norman Sinclair Ricker Katherine Howard Rock Abbie May Sheridan
Hilda Guptill Curtis Hazel Elizabeth Dedrick
Henry Alden Sleeper Henry Turner Stanley Alfred Wells Tapper
Dixon Cady Taylor Eleanor Wright Taylor
Graduates of Clarke School.
Katherine Louise Bartol Charles Eugene Batchelder Ethel Pearl Eliza Brown Madeline Chaisson Leslie Wendell Crosby Marion Eddins Dennis Harold Allen Durkee Vivian Gerald Fairbanks Dorothy Burnham Fifield Alfred Newhall Frazier James Joseph Hennessey John Edwin Leahy Rose Hilda Lee
Ralph Irving Lindsey Helen Marie Markee
Marjorie Moody Arthur Edwin Morley Milton Earle Morrill Flora Amelia Nies
Olive Nute Marion Woodman Owen Helen Agnes Quinn
Eudors Evelyn Ryer Lawrence Ivers Smith Winnie Mabel Summers Earl Clarence Wagenfeld Jerome Isaac Watts Marion Wilkins Ralph Sterling Young
Warren James Doherty Margaret Elizabeth Durgin Carrie Frances Finnegan
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Enrollment for Fall Term.
HIGH SCHOOL :
1906
1907
190S
1909
1910
Graduates
2
2
2
22
I
Senior
12
2I
26
19
16
Junior
25
30
22
2I
23
Sophomore
43
23
25
27
32
Freshmen
28
30
37
43
49
Sub. Freshmen
34
43
49
52
58
Totals
I44
149
161
162
179
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS :
Grade VIII
57
61
63
62
69
Grade VII
71
94
78
76
113
Grade VI
93
90
100
137
87
Grade V
105
97
147
95
118
Grade IV .
109
I34
92
116
IIS
Totals
435
476
480
486
495
PRIMARY SCHOOLS :
Grade III .
115
94
116
130
137
Grade II
108
119
125
I35
135
Grade I
158
135
141
I33
166
Totals
38I
348
382
398
438
Grand Totals
960
973
IO23
1046
II12
Increase
79
13
50
23
66
.
.
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Table Showing Average Age of Pupils in the Grades of the Elemen- tary Schools.
Years Months
Grade I
Boys
6
Girls
·
5
9
Grade II
Boys
·
6
9
Girls
·
7
I
Grade III
Boys
S
6
Girls
·
S
5
Grade IV
Boys
9
4
Girls
9
3
Grade V.
Boys
IO
8
Girls
II
I
Grade VI
Boys
II
6
Girls
I2
I
Grade VII
Boys
I 2
S
Girls
.
1 2
6
Grade VIII
Boys
I3
6
Girls
· 13
8
.
·
.
.
.
·
.
.
Number of boys in Grades over 15 years old 3
Number of girls in Grades over 15 years old 3
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Promotions by Grades June. 1910.
Grade I
Boys
.
54
Girls
.
42
Grade II
Boys
54
Girls
·
58
Grade III
Boys
·
56
Girls
.
48
Grade IV
Boys
69
Girls
47
Grade V
Boys
41
Girls
49
Grade VI
Boys
42
Girls
·
46
Grade VII
Boys
28
Girls
.
41
Grade VIII
Boys
.
28
Girls
·
31
·
.
·
·
.
.
Totals, boys 372, girls 362-734.
Graduates from High School, boys S, girls 12.
.
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STATISTICS.
School population census 1910, 5-15 years old 893
Largest attendance, during fall of 1910 1,210
Absences, January 27, 191I ·
I18
Total enrollment, January, 27, 191I . 1,112 .
Average membership, Jan., 1910-June, 1910 S27+
Average daily attendance, Jan., 1910-June, 1910 771
Percentage of daily attendance to average membership, 93+
No. days absence, Sept. 1909-June, 1910 . 1 1,200
No. cases tardiness, Sept., 1909-June, 1910 854
No. dropped from roll prior to June 30, 1910 76
No. cases truancy ·
9
No. boys completing Grammar School course ·
26
No. girls completing Grammar School course 33
No. school buildings .
6
No. sittings in grades
950
No. pupils in High School
179
Amount appropriated for school purposes for each $1,000 of valuation
Increase of attendance over 1909-1910 · 66
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TEACHERS.
Phillips High School.
Date of
Election. Salary.
Where Educated.
Address.
Harold W. Loker, Prin.
1907 $1,900 Harvard University
1895
16 Devens road
A. Lillian Rideout
1893
900
Boston University
1891
15 Andrew road
M. Lillian Smith
1907
750
Radcliffe
1905
6 Elmood terrace
Alice F. Haskell
1907
700
Radcliffe
1906
46 Bloomfield street, Lynn
Sarah L. Bell
1907
700
Hikox Shorthand
1901
16 Rockland street
Ethel L. Hersey
1910
750 Wellesley
1907
76 Banks road
Alma H. Sander
1910
650 Boston University
1909
241 Humphrey street
Eleanor D. Clement
1910
500 Mt. Holyoke
1910
12 Cliffside avenue
M. Firth Eastwood
1907
500
Hummerton College, London 1892
Clarke School.
Frances A. Gould, Prin.
1888
700 Holton High
1879
Nichols street, Danvers
Minnie H. Fernald, VII
1888
600 Salem Normal
1874
40 Hampden street
Mabel S. Knight, VI
1894
600 Salem Normal
30 Burley avenue, Danvers
Nellie J. Wentworth, VII
1910
600 Westfield Normal, N. Adams Training
16 Rock avenue 80 Silsbee street, Lynn
Grace Makepeace, IV
1910
550
Hynnis Normal
Edith Farnum, III
1897
600
Salem Normal
1 895
II Rock avenue
Alice H. Oliver, VIII
1909
600
Castine, Me., Normal
1908
6 Elmwood terrace
Anna F. Willey, I
1902
600 Salem Normal
1902
22 Maple avenue
Florence Gregg, V
1905
600 Beverly Training
1895
16 Rockland street
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80 Huntington Av., Boston
Redington School.
Date of Election. Salary.
Where Educated.
Lucy Ardell Kimball, I
1903
$600 Salem Normal School
Katherine Yeaton Prescott
1902
600 Salem Normal School
Marian Agnes Sands, III
1909
600 Fitchburg Normal School
Sarah Edith Gardner, IV
1894
600 Swampscott High School
Alice Louise Shaw, V
1902
700 Salem Normal School
Marion Faustina Newcomb, Asst. 1910
450 Salem Normal School
Eliza Jane Owen, VI
1906
600
Tilden Seminary
Beach School.
Ellen M. Dewing, VII
1894
$618 Natick High
Elizabeth Hadley
1872
618 Salem Normal School
20 Outlook road 34 Rockland street
Machon School.
Mabel E. Verry, Prin. IV
1896
$650 Danvers High
1886
304 Broadway, Everett
Isabelle Delory, III
1910
450
Salem Normal
1908 82 Greenwood avenue
Elsie M. Hussey, II
1907
600 Salem Normal
1906
122 Norfolk avenue
Dorothy Jasinsky, I
1907
660
Salem Normal
1906
129 Norfolk avenue
Palmer School.
Louise C. Stanley, II and III
1888
618 Wheaton Seminary
1886
149 Humphrey street
Blanche E. Doyle, I
1903
618 Coburn Institue, Me.
1 899 149 Humphrey street
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Address.
6 New Ocean street
23 Huron street
33 Rockland street 71 Puritan road
9 Farragut road 60 King street 90 Norfolk avenue
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Supervisor of Music. Date of Election.
Eben F. Richardson
1910
Salary. $400
Address. 10 Chatham place
Florence 1. Bulfinch
Supervisor of Drawing. 1908 $500
40 Beach avenue
Clerk of School Committee.
Arthur W. Stubbs
1906
$180
74 Paradise road
Truant Officer.
Alfred F. Frasier
$75
10 Elmwood road
School Physicians.
Dr. Howard K. Glidden
1907
$50
50 Humphrey street
Dr. Loring Grimes
.
1910
50
142 Burrill street
Dr. Harry Lowd
·
.
1910
50
90 Burrill street
Dr. Ralph Bicknell
1910
50
46 Burrill street
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Janitors.
School. Salary.
Phillips
$800
Clarke
600
Charles Roderick
.
.
.
Machon
400
A. G. Stone
.
.
.
Redington
400
Mrs. P. A. Nickerson
·
·
Beach
100
A. McNamara
.
.
Palmer
3,50
Address.
S Fuller avenue
31 Hampden street I Elmwood road
49 Blaney street Orient court
So2 Humphrey street
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13 H. W. Wardwell George I. Blake
.
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Medical Inspection of Schools.
Chapter 502, Acts of 1906, provides as follows :
APPOINTMENT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIANS, ETC.
SECTION I. The school committee of every city and town in the Commonwealth shall appoint one or more school physicians, shall assign one to each public school within its city or town. and shall provide them with all proper facilities for the per- formance of their duties as prescribed in this act : provided, how- ever, that in cities wherein the Board of Health is already main- taining or shall hereafter maintain substantially such medical inspection as this act requires, the Board of Health shall appoint and assign the school physician.
EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSIS TO BE MADE.
SECT. 2. Every school physician shall make a prompt exam- ination and diagnosis of all children referred to him as herein- after provided, and such further examination of teachers, janitors and school buildings as in his opinion the protection of the health of the pupils may require.
SECT. 3. The school committee shall cause to be referred to a school physician for examination and diagnois every child return- ing to school without a certificate from the Board of Health after absence on account of illness or from unknown cause ; and every child in the schools under its jurisdiction who shows signs of being in ill health or suffering from infectious or contagious disease, unless he is at once excluded from school by the teacher : except that in the case of schools in remote and isolated situa- tions the school committee may make such other arrangements as may best carry out the purposes of this act.
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